When it comes to the $9 billion project backlog that faces Colorado's state highways, state legislators agree there's an urgent need to raise more money to chip away at it. But they're still working on the details.

Fossil-fuel drillers operating along Colorado's Front Range are navigating increasingly turbulent conditions, with added state scrutiny of projects near people and the imposition of an $800,000 penalty on Extraction Oil and Gas for failing to conduct proper pressure tests of wells to prevent potentially catastrophic blowouts.

Over the past decade or so, rates of depression, psychological distress and suicidal thoughts and actions have risen dramatically among people 26 and younger, with some of the highest increases among women and people at higher income levels, according to a new study of a broad swath of young Americans.

Family Leave Act could be a lifesaver for many The Family Leave Act would be a vital program for so many Coloradans. But — and this is big — timeliness, efficiency and safeguards against fraud and corruption (on both the administration’s and public’s part) need to be carefully written into the legislation. There needs to be a cap of administrative...